{"id":546802,"date":"2010-04-29T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/euro-ticks-up-athens-stocks-surge-did-obama-save-the-euro-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-29T04:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T08:40:30","slug":"euro-ticks-up-athens-stocks-surge-did-obama-save-the-euro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546802","title":{"rendered":"Euro Ticks Up, Athens Stocks Surge: Did Obama Save The Euro?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b903a217f8b9a575b150100-399-299\/doctors-obama.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"doctors obama\" width=\"399\" height=\"299\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things seem to be looking a bit up in euroland this morning. A bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finviz.com\/futures_charts.ashx?t=6E&amp;p=m5\">The euro is ticking up<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/quote?ticker=ASE%3AIND\">Athens Stock Exchange is up 4%<\/a>, obviously on hopes that the worst fears of Krugman and El-Erian won&#8217;t be realized.<\/p>\n<p>So, will the Greeks name their next temple after Obama?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/now-obama-is-making-emergency-calls-to-merkel-over-greek-aid-2010-4\">he leaned heavily on Merkel<\/a>, and it sounds as though she may be softening her stance a little.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, his pressure does nothing for the German parliament which still needs to approve a bailout, but still.<\/p>\n<p>At this early hour on Thursday, things are looking a little brighter. If history is any guide, expect more shoes to drop throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/euro-ticks-up-athens-stocks-surge-did-obama-save-the-euro-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mohammad-el-erian-and-paul-krugman-both-wildly-gloomy-about-spiraling-crisis-in-greece-2010-4\">Mohammad El-Erian And Paul Krugman Both Wildly Gloomy About Spiraling Crisis In Greece<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/now-obama-is-making-emergency-calls-to-merkel-over-greek-aid-2010-4\">Now Obama Is Making Emergency Calls To Merkel Over Greek Aid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spain-crisis-downgrade-2010-4\">Here&#8217;s Everything You Need To Know About The Rapidly Approaching Crisis In Spain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/iiaCecFDyZw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things seem to be looking a bit up in euroland this morning. A bit. The euro is ticking up, and the Athens Stock Exchange is up 4%, obviously on hopes that the worst fears of Krugman and El-Erian won&#8217;t be realized. So, will the Greeks name their next temple after Obama? Yesterday he leaned heavily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}